Searching within your readling list

[ancientsavvy]

Title:
Searching within your readling list

Area:
Search Functionality

Summary:
Search your existing reading list ONLY by interest

Description:
As Dreamwidth gets ready to add the reading filters functionality I thought it would be a wonderful idea to be able to search within your reading list to determine which ones listed a specific interest. This would help in setting up your filters as its hard to remember all the interests those you read have.

Poll #1146 Searching within your readling list

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27

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Should be implemented as-is.
12 (44.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (7.4%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (44.4%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[triadruid]

I'm a little unclear on what you're asking for. It seems the most useful way to do this would be a screen which aggregates all of your reading list' interests, ordered by which ones are most popular?

The other way I can read it is you could modify the Search screen to show a particular interest, but only for those already within your Circle/Reading List, and that seems much less useful (to me).

[janinedog]

I think they just want to be able to filter (for example) this search for the "dogs" interest to show only people that they're subscribed to in the results.

[ancientsavvy]

I suppose that would be helpful as well. I was thinking in terms of this:

I want to set up a new reading filter for the Merlin fandom, so I want to search through my reading list and determine which ones have Merlin listed so I can add them to the reading filter. I know that they won't always be posting about Merlin, but it makes it more likely I'll read Merlin posts when I want to read them.

The same idea works for access filters, to determine who might be interested in any Merlin fandom posts I might make.